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kismetrose Mar 16 2006, 12:46 AM Post #1
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Well, I've gotten all of my paper done except for the last paragraph, which I will tend to in the morning. I'll spend several hours on Thursday morning/afternoon proofreading and editing and fine-tuning and then I'll be ready to print.

Please, please cross your fingers that my paper will do well. I've worked really hard on it but with everything that's been going on, I'm worried. I desire very much to do well. I don't want to let my professor down.
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kismetrose Mar 16 2006, 01:25 PM Post #2
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From the midst of reviewing my paper, I have this to say: anyone who thinks that official writing is easy is a fucking idiot.
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Didge Mar 16 2006, 02:10 PM Post #3
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Classify me as one of those then. ;)

Truly, I enjoy writing even papers and have no problem with them. But then, I'm weird and everyone here already knew that.
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Is there an un-official writing? I don't think I have ever come across the term before. Of course my collage experiance is quite limited.


The hardest part of any kind of paper for me (and really the only part I truely hated) was the idiotic MLA source citation. In high school I failed a paper because I used a source that was an annonmous poster to an internet message board that had no publication information. I asked the teacher how to site that and she said do the best you can. I did and the points I lost for not doing my source right and it was just enough points to push from D to F on the paper.


Sorry, I seem to have gone off on a little rant there...
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kismetrose Mar 16 2006, 03:16 PM Post #5
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I tend to think of unofficial writing as personal writing, not meant to be published or really read by anyone else.

I tend to think of official writing as that writing that is meant for publication or grading.

It's not that I don't enjoy writing papers. Some of them I enjoy very much. At the end of the quarter, though, I tend to feel drained and ready for a break - and that is totally me today.
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Didge Mar 16 2006, 03:59 PM Post #6
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Maybe it's due to my upbringing. My mom went to Penn State on an English Scholarship so she beat into me proper sentence structure, grammar, and overall writing from an early age. Especially as I grew up and advanced in classes, she'd force me to become mind-numbingly efficient at being able to type papers, reports, what-have-you.

Because of that I have no problems with whatever style of paper someone wants. If I'm familiar with it I can sit down and bang out a good paper in an hour or two. If I want a great paper I might spend as much as four hours on it. I'd have to say now that I've been away from writing APA or MLA standards I'd probably have a rough time at it, but nothing too bad. I'm guessing I'd glance at one of their little 'helper' books on how to write that way before banging out a paper and be ok. Or I'd just have to call my mom. Mom's are great that way, or at least mine is.

Plus my ability to BS and make it sound official hasn't hurt me. ;)
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Vacerious Mar 16 2006, 05:13 PM Post #7
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Congrats, Kismet!

Ironically enough, I just finished my FIRM project today. FIRM is an acronym for Fundamentals In Research Methods. Essentially, its a year-and-a-half long Science Fair Project/Research Paper, and if you fail it, you get kicked out of the school. Yeah, the staff here are serious about that shit.

I feel kinda bad for one junior here. He asked a question for each senior presentation in the category he observed, which has long been deemed taboo amongst the students. Its fair to say that juniors who break this taboo get their just deserts. ;)

And I agree with DR on MLA citation. Even though ISEF is clearly science-based, why the fuck do they use a citation style for literature? :blink: I still believe that the APA style is much better because it is much simpler.

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Plus my ability to BS and make it sound official hasn't hurt me. ;)


Something tells me you would've done great at my school. :D
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Are congratulations all ready in order? I sure hope so Kismet, but I know rounding up a paper can be a real frustration.

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Ironically enough, I just finished my FIRM project today. FIRM is an acronym for Fundamentals In Research Methods.

Yeah, I did this when I studied psychology a while. So much dry theory pressed into one subject, it felt like eating sand. I managed, but I still have nightmares about that course. Not because of the difficulty, it was just details and facts really, but because of the dry unimaginative abstract theory of the matter.
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I got it done. Whew!

Although I was quite late to class to turn it in. Traffic was just horrible the whole way there, which is why I do not tend to head to school anywhere close to 5 o'clock. I didn't have a choice yesterday, though. Oh well, I got there, turns out I hadn't missed much. This professor likes for us to explain our papers on the last class session even though we are all completely dead and chomping at the bit to leave. He's sweet, though, he's actually interested in our research.

I hope I did okay. I did the best I could, anyway.

And now...I'm going to sleep in and play the new Sims expansion.
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congratz on getting it done. :D
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